P AR.15 LETTER. PARIS, MARCH 21 T HERE was a moment dur- ing the banking moratorium when Americans here al- most wished their money from home came in the form of bananas. F or ba- nanas can always be eaten in a foreign land, which is more than can be done with ten-spots or certified checks. \\1hile In God \\1 e Trust no longer had any official value on the Bourse, nevertheless it was personally believed in by all barmen and most credit houses, the barmen usually believing one franc more than anyone else. Thus a dry lVlartini could still be drunk at the old rate of four for a dollar, with a one-franc tip to spare. The Ameri- can Express courageously paid twenty- four francs to the hundred cents, while the Wagons-Lits, with perhaps even greater courage, dared offer the un- equaled low of seventeen-which, had they sold to Lazard F rères, who as shorts were painfully covering with dollars at thirty, or to the ..A.merican syndicate patriotically raiding the dollar in Amsterdam, would have made them a tidy profit. However, aU that most Paris transactions madé for the trans- actors was clerical lahor, since in no case, even that of French institutions such as the Crédit Lyonnais or the . Comptoir d'Escompte, which, like Thos. Cook, gave only twenty, was the buying open-and-shut. Transactions over hotel or shop counters fðr bills due, however, were all kindly made with a lien which guaranteed that the low-dollar seller would be reimhursed by mail at the first quoted opening rate -if it were high. ..\ " ,l .1. e , "'- î .-'. <;:-- t. . \ , . ':':; W HILE at the peak of bank clos- ings and no 'change news a few French chauvinists wondered if they would have the privilege, though they never go anywheré, of pasting worth- less dollar bills on their suitcases, as some Americans regrettably pasted the franc in '26, on the whole the intelli- gent French were chic about our get- ting our come-uppance. And the poor people were swell. "\tVaiters staked Ohio studen ts to a week of breakfasts, bar- bers offered to lend their life savings, butlers presented their Park A venue mistresses with little potted plants as a 31 "We need the answers at once Telephone Rome and London" t '." ,/1if:'W" :f ' '(/ ' " d:h Ic: >' ./1' ,... '. :" "'r ;'iè{'" , '" "......" .f :....:... -,-"" "':0,-. I ! ..: , . " ,: ,: " " , ., .,. ..,... " :" : ': l " " . - ", . " . . ,... ' , ' .". ' ,.,:, , > :::;: : .." " ---, .; """ : !,::::< ., .,:.,,: '" ..,;;:;.:;. .."".r. . ."""'. J; ;0 """ i : ,:":.,, .'" ",:.:.",::: ,,: ;,;, if%g1 , ,.I .,"..<' ,', " ',:1""."""'" = .$" ,j . , : . : . i , , . : :. : , ; , : , ;" , . , : . ' ; : : , . , ..' 1 .... . ' . : . : " ' ..,,: :j ,..r . \ '. id, . > h'1 4 ':.\L::; f\..,:, i ..c ';W : :Z;,Jl '" l' ' ' . ,!; "'" ,,', <&f#'. :.. -' ... . . t t ;;': , 0 , ' ::::,;.; if.;:i ;=t:=: J1í::EN important decisions rest upon quick replies from world centers., Overseas Telephone Service is particularly valuable. It allows business and profes- sional men to contact associates in distant countries in the space of minutes. . . without leaving their desks. They can ask and answer questions freely., give instructions., buy and sell., arrange for shipments., clear up misunder- standings . . . in fact-> conduct business almost as readily as though they were face to face. Overseas Telephone calls have the advantage of friendly voice contact; they are builders of good will. From New York a three-minute conversation with London costs $30; Rio de Janeiro., $30; Berlin., $35.25; Rome-> $36; Cape Town., South Africa., $45; Bermuda., $15. A federal tax of 20 cents applies on each overseas conversation. Overseas Telephone Service